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Our Chief Coaches
👑 Andie Otto, Chief Flourishing Coach · 🔥 Coach Ruben Guzman, Chief Transformational Coach
🏅 Both accepted their honorary titles on October 9, 2026, and are 🌟 coaches we proudly recommend.
Knowledge tells us what to do. Coaching helps us actually do it. Our hero and our SHERO walk beside people until healthy living becomes their own. 🦸 🦸♀️
🦸 HERO · 🔥 Our Chief Transformational Coach (honorary title, accepted October 9, 2026)
🏊 Coach Ruben J. Guzman
MPH, DipACLM · Sacramento, California
One of the first professionals board certified in lifestyle medicine. Lost more than 50 pounds in 1995 and has coached others to lasting change for three decades.
📖 New book: How to Fully Live (2026)
⚡ Also: Evolving Health (2011)
🦸♀️ SHERO · 👑 Our Chief Flourishing Coach (honorary title, accepted October 9, 2026)
👑 Andie 💪🏼 Otto 🪷
NBC-HWC · Boulder, Colorado
National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach and American College of Lifestyle Medicine Certified Lifestyle Medicine Coach. Founder of Nourished, LLC. Holistic nutrition specialist and perimenopause coach.
📓 New: The Nourished Path Through Menopause — 4-Month Daily Planner
🌸 (💲 paid; in stock when rechecked Oct 23, 2026)
👑🔥 What our Chief Coaches do
Kitchen Monk’s Guardians protect and grow flourishing in others. Chief Flourishing Chef Robin Jeep, our Chief Culinary Guardian, guards the kitchen. Our Chief Flourishing Coach and our Chief Transformational Coach guard the hardest part of any health journey: the space between knowing and doing. They help people find their why, build habits that stick, and keep going when motivation fades.
🎓 Want to work with a coach? Look for credentials like NBC-HWC (National Board for Health & Wellness Coaching), American College of Lifestyle Medicine lifestyle medicine certification, or a board-certified Nurse Coach (NC-BC), and ask your healthcare team how coaching can fit with your care.
“Chief Flourishing Coach” and “Chief Transformational Coach” are Kitchen Monk™’s honorary titles, not professional credentials, licenses, or awards. 🤝 Andie Otto and Coach Ruben J. Guzman are coaches we proudly recommend (both accepted their titles October 9, 2026). No payment is involved. Each coach, including Andie Otto and Coach Ruben, is independent. Covers © their publishers and authors. Independent outside book recommendations earn us no affiliate commissions. Our founder’s own books are author products and may generate royalties. Educational information only, not medical advice; coaching supports, but does not replace, medical care. Last updated October 9, 2026.
“Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.” 
